It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle #279

Black to play and win

Black resigned here, assuming 1..Qh3 2 bc Bf3 3 Qf3; should he have done?

Colditz v Schutze, Berlin 1970

Solution

“Of course not”: whenever problems are posed in this way, you know the answer, all you need to do is find out why.

Here, it is fairly easy: 2..Qh1+! and mates.